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R. W. SCOTT.

HOSIERY KNITTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION mu: own. 1914.

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UN'ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSAC HUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MEBHE ASSIGNMENTS, TO SCOTT & WILLIAMS, INCORPORATED, A CORPORATION 01' MASSACHUSETTS.

HOSIERY-KNITTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 7, 191 9.

Application filed December 31, 1914. Serial No. 879,887.

specification.

My invention relates to improvem'ents in knitting machines adapted to knitting double or multiple-course fabrics, as well as to improvements in machines capable of knitting relatively complete articles of hosiery, such as stockings having integral welts, mock rib tops, and seamless legs, heels and toes, one ob]ect of my invention being to provide a relatively. simple machine ofthe' latter class capable of automatic operation in an improved manner.

Another ob ect of my invention is to provide a machine of the class indicated with manner for the formation in desire automatic devices operating in an im roved parts of'the product of mock-rib or accordion-fab ric, tucked, or other multiple-course fabric sections of structures well known inthe art.

For the. above and other purposes in machine comprises improvements a plica le to existing knitting. machines, as H ustrated in connection with the machine disclosed in my applications-Serial No. 746,070 filed-Februs y ,3, 1913 [Letters Patent No..1-,152,s50,

fated Sept; 7.- 1915] and Serial No: 766,401

filed May s, 1913 Letters Patent. No.

. 1,148,055, dated July; 2 ,.1915.

In the accompanymg drawings: Figure 1 is a right sideelevation of the I knitting headyandpattern mechanism of a machine providedwithconstruction illusa trating my present invention; 1 1 Fig. 2 is-aplan view takenabove the bed plate, theneedle dylinder'and attached parts being removed; 1

I Fig. 3's a-plan oftheknitting f'ilieadg I i Fig. 4 is asunder plan the web holder cag rmgg ig ifs .anff-ipternal development of the cam ringill P ating the main and auxiliary 4 ,stitch fthe feedj the of theinachine' tends sections on line L 0 "illustrating two diflerent positions of the auxiliaryweb-holder cam;

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Figs. 9 10 and. 11 are details showing crent holders having butts of three di len hs;

ig. 12 is a detail illustrating a modification of the web-holders and auxiliary webholder cam;

Fig. 13 is an under plan of an auxiliary advancing cam for the web-holders;

Fig. 14 1s a view of one article made by the machine;

Figs. 15, 16 and 17 are views respectively of mock-rib fabric, of tucked fabric, and of V plain double-course fabric;

Fig. 18 is a partial plan similar to Fig. 2 illustratin additional mechanism;

Fig. 19 1s a detail side elevation of some 0 the devices of Fig. 18; and

1 applications, usually operated from shaft 80,

but which maybe provided with auxiliary ,pawling mechanism (not shown) for moving said surface 120 in timewith the passage past a tgiven point of" redetermined segments 0 the needle cylin er 260, in order accurately to time the operation of certain mechanism cooperating with said needle cyle inder. The indications of the pattern surface 120 are transmitted to the devices at the knittin head by means including a series of thrust 1 are 4.60, 26.

The needle cyl'nder 260 is equipped with the usual long a d short butt series of inde- Eendently movable latch needles which may e te'nsioned needles, for the usual stocking knitting purposes, and cooperating with said needles a relativel fixed cam ring 271 is provided with a cam edge having'parts 40 at an a t elevation fixing an idlepositlon for the neeelevation partly in section of:- 1 r1;ng andtho auxiliary yarndlessuch as tcretain the last knit-loop upon their o en latches, hereinafter referred to as the tuc positiou.-

In a depression having slopes 5 in said ring 271 a top center cam 8 and a bottom center cam 9 are fixedly mounted. A leading stitch cam 7 and a following stitch cam 6 are rovided for coiiperation with cams 8 and and slopes 5, together constituting the main knittin cams. Said cams 6 and 7 may be radia y removable, as by mounting them upon a ring segment 370. The said machine may further be provided for the usual stocking knitting purposes with a switch cam 415, a positioning cam 411 following said switch cam in the direction for rotary work, and with narrowing pickers 650 and a widening picker 680, a coiiperatin together for the said purposes.

pen a standard 401 at the rear of the machine a latch guard ring 550 is pivoted at 552 to rest when operative on the standard 400 in front of the machine, in which rim is provided a yarn feed throat 559 from which yarns controlled by yarn changing yarnguides or fingers F are given to needles at said main knitting cams. Said machine may also include if desired a device for operating one of the guides F for feeding a splicing yarn, and a brush latch opener 425, such as that shown and claimed in my application Serial No. 845,845 filed June 18, 1914. The construction and operation of the am feed ing devices may be the same as t t shown and claimed in my application Serial No. 845,844 filed June 18, 1914, Patent No. 1,238,052, Au 21, 1917, the yarn guides F being ivotef on the stud 554, said guides being irectly operated by the upper ends of some of the thrust bars 460.

The needle cylinder 260 carries an attached web-holder bed 295 Figs. 1 7 and 8, which may be the same as that of my said ap lications.

X web-holder cam cap 350 is mounted for free rotation on an annular shoulder of said bed 295, said cap being heldstationary in,

each direction :by one of the adjustment screws 303 in In 304 straddling the standard 400, as usua On said cam cap,to coiiperate with the needles and the main knitting cams as exlained in my said application Serial No. 46,070, an out-throw cam 306 and adjustable in=throw cams 309 are rovided in cooperation with the indepen ently movable web-holders 292 carriedin radial ooves in the bed 295. The machine a be provided with an-automaticall *a justable cam 312 for shiftin the time o actuation of the web-holders 29' havi long butts 29 at the region of the main stltch cams. Said cam cap is provided with a concentric groove 305 for maintaining the web-holders, except as described below, in their advanced position. The cam 271 of the machine claimed in m sifid application Serial No, 766,401 has a groove 864 to accommodate the butts of independently actuated acks 380 carried in the needle grooves of e needle cylinder 260, or in some of and grooves, and

jacks cofiperating with an advancing cam 366 to produce the vertical separation of two or more intercalated series of needles prior to their passage into main knitting cams 6,

provided with jacks will take an idle path under the leadmg stitch cam 7 and 'under the bottom center earn 9. Needles aifected b the jacks 380 and the jack cam 366 pass a ove cam 382 and into the knittin cams. The elevation given the needles aving jacks at the apex of the cam 366 is such as to cause them to clear their loops beneath their latches.

For knitting articles having beginning selvages or out-turned welts, or both, cam 382 is caperated in a manner fully set out in my sai application 766,401 to determine during the presence of the series of needles having jacks in the active knitting roove, first to receive yarn during the ma ing of the selvage, and thereafter to knit, the passage of the remaining needles havin no Jacks 1n the idle move 10, during W ich passe e said need es without jackswithhold than previous 100 s to tie down the welt.

Without isturbing the operative relation of the stitch cams, the 'ack-cam 366 and the cam 382, I now provi e a device for interknitting an independent yarn at alternate courses on some of the needles. My said machine already contains a cam slide 2, Figs. 2 and 3, and an operating lever 20 therefor, in contact with the cam 26 on thrust bar 26 controlled by pattern drum 120. I provide upon said cam slide a supplemental stitch cam 2", Figs. 1, 2 and 5 and a supplemental depressing cam 2*, said latter cam having some of the functions of the de ressing surface of a cam carried by said s ide 2 In my said application. Said cams may beremovably fastened in any convenient manner, as by screws and a separatin spacer 2'. a

o coiiperate with said cams 2 and 2 cam' rin 271 is formed with a de ression 11 having a slope 12 leadin to an e evation 40, and preceding the location of the cam 882 and estitchcam'i. Needles provided withv noise 380 approaching the cams 2, 2, in t c direction for rotary work are advanc'd to clear their latches by said jacks after their passage of the guide cam 411 and before their encounter with stitch com 2, whereupon said needles are supplied with new yarn, re-

cear at lead- Ncc dles without jacks approaching the V without havin holding the loops cams 2 2 at the tuck point of elevation 40 are depressed by cam 2 at too early a time to take the yarn supplied for the supplemelr tal stitch cam, ass into the depression 11 without having on advanced to clear their latches, andthen go into the knittin cams reviousy taken I; e new are or altere -t e diazfiositionof their old cop with respect to e needle latch. It wil be observed that the jack cam 366, the jacks .380, cams 2 and 2", and a yarnguide 51 associated with cam 2 constitute means for knitting with the yarn w supplied at said supplemental stitch cam mechanism to recurrent needles only, andmeans for withalready upon the-intervening needles without jacks. v

- yarn 3/ only in front of a thrown to the back of the of all of the needles I yarn y from the throat 559.

To make the fabric illustratedin Fig. 15, in which alternate needles knit yarn w and yarn y, the 'intervenin needles knitting ree float of yarn w fa ric, it is desirable to insure the passage of the intervening needles which have not kn'i-t at the cams 2?, '2", in front of the yarn supplied at said sups plemental'stitch cams prior "to the knitting at stitch cam 6 with a It will be understood that in orderto knit thearticle shown in Fig. l fi ofiither articles having sections of plam fahricknit single sections of fabric T such as multiple yarn supplied to a single knitting wave during a part of the operation, em

ploying means for establishing and feeding a second fabric, for instance to tlmi stocking illustratedin knitting wave at some of the needles at predetermined times or durin the' knitting of predetermined extents 0 form "the top T of Fig. 14. It is im- 'jlpnrtant" that the machine should be ca s- 16 retained of being adjusted to knit to knit double course withoutdisturbance 0f the device for knittingthe plain single course parts of the article, or of the function of the devices for the'usual stocking knit- 7 purposes.

r the purposes suggested it is articuan desirable to cause the wehhold ers 292 to coiiperate with the supplemental stitch eam2 or ;with the needles afi :Eectedythe cam- 2? during the-knittin of the double course mock-rib or accordion iabric'z To avoid stretching and wear upon loops due ,to withdrawing and inserting the web-holders inthe absence of'the auxiliary. knitting wave,

and 'other objections to movin the web holders during tea -w e i ng, store the web holders, atov' EhB r path during theperieds. of inaction as the cams 2, 2.

of auxiliary cams such such articles, hav- For the making of single course or it isdesirable to 're-- normal oprange for severing said yarn and ampin ii; in a position safely out of con t wit needles operating for other purposes during such times as the supplemental stitch cam 1s out of action. My machine is therefore'prov1ded' with means for feeding, for rendering idle, severing and clampin an auxiliary yarn; with means for estab ishin a withdrawin wave in the web-holders 1n the deslred re ation to the needle wave-formed at the needle Jcam 2, and with means for rendering operative and inoperative the came 2, 2, associated in such a manner as to cause their timely operation during the pass'age of a predetermined segment of the needles a predetermined segment of the web-holders, and mined operation of the yarn guides F and the remaining agencies of the machine.

.A lever 50 overhanging latch ring 550 and pivoted on the same axis554 as yarn' ides has its extreme end bent to bring it tangential to said ring at a point above cam 2. On one face of said lever an auxiliary yarn guide 51 is adjustably screwed.

When lever 50 is depressed the supplemental yarn guide 51 extends into an annular bearing recess formed in latch ring 550 for the reception of a gap-closer ring 5-65 (see Fig. 6),

dially enlarged at this point in some cases, the ledge fonning the-bottom bearing of the said ring 565 being cutaway at 54.350 per mit the yarnibore 52 for yarn w to reach the desired height with advanced by their jacks 380 and jack cam 366, prior to the retraction ofsaid needles to knit at cam 2. To permit yarn guide 51 to reach the position illustrated in Fig. 6, the

in relation to a predetern'ic at t e desired which recess may be rarespect to the needles a bracket 601 of the existing yarn cutter and clamp mechanism may be cut awa at 60, and the ring 565 is cut away as s own in Figs. 3 and 6, the on notiextending to'the outer periphryof saidbutleaving a part of horizontal flange-B2 to maintain the continuity of the ring 565 as far as ointls 566, in which the vertical element 0 said broken annulus 565 terminates near the yarn throat 559, as expla'ined my said appl-i tion SerialNo." 845,844.

In order to p vent breakage of the latches of needlesadvanced to an up er position during reclp-mcalknittin ,sai gap closer rm 565 is at times rotated on its bearing on late ring bripgtlie p pointq 566 opposite an unfioken part of said ring 550, and to throw one of the .points' more at length in between the A curacyvof operraitlonv I i as part of attached to said lever 70 a limit screw 22 carried by Kant in relation acks 380 506 across the gap formed for the operation of a yam feed guide F. A similar (:03 ration with the needles is efiected tion of the auxiliary arn feed 51 by forming beveled points 56 similar to the points 566 in the vertical flange of said gap closer ring 565, so that upon rotating the rin up or part of the cut made at 54 is bri e auxiliary yarn guide lever is lowered to its operative position and elevated to its inoperative position by an actuat' lever pivoted on an extension of the late ring pivot 552, said lever 70 having an enlargement 71 taking over the bent upper end of thrust bar 26, said lever also being provided with. a shoulder said lever 50. Lever 70 terminates in a boss 74 bored to receive a spring plunger 75.

Mounted on cap ring 30 as by pivoting on an elongated abutment screw 303 in one of the In 304 a lever 85 extends above the e periphery of the cam cap 300 toward the observer in Fig. '1. Lever 85 terminates at 86 in a flat upon which pl r 75 rests, is normally maintained in an e vated position by a spring plu r carried in nipple 87, and is held on its pivot 303 by collar 84:.

Lever 7 0 is rotatedon -stud552 to elevate auxiliary yarn guide lever-t0 andto permit lever 85 to be elevated byits spring plunger, for instance by a relatively strong spring 73 at one on and to bracket 21 at its other end, whenever cams 517 on drum 120 permit thrust bar 26 to be lowered.

. Referring now to Figs. 4, 7 and 8, an auxiliary withdrawing cam 88 for the webholders 292 is carried by the lever 85 for substantially vertical movement about the pivot 303 as'a ter. Said cam may oomprise a late adjustably fastened by screws 89 on i e upper su ace of lever plate" having a downward extension cam shaped at its worhng' end shown in Fig. 4, and capable when lever ,85 is depressed of entering a cut 90 formedthrough web-holder cam cap 300 to stand across concentric groove 305 at the proper to the needles elevated by of construction and acprefer to build up the Sodas-illustrated in Figs? and 8, ate"incomplete-shouldered annulus oh my be of hardened steel, sprung inner margin of groove of said rmg v300 com- 804: and en- For ameni cam cap of ass 301,w ianbplaoeto firm the rising a casting 'avinglu fu'gements 317, and a turn der side to form the floor of the groove 305,

a turned depending outer flan 318 provida running bearing upon e shouldered :iholder bed 295 The main web-holder withdrawing cam names? at the oca-.

. edges at the meetin the 72 taking under a fiat on;

85, said" holders, forward to substantially as flat on its unshown and claimed in my said ap 306 is provided with'beveled ends, and may be fastened to cap 300 by screws 319, thus filling the gap formed in ring 30 cut away on a chord of the circle efined by 1t, in such a manner as to leave no 'sharp -points of com and ring to cause breakage o web-holder butts. Ring 301- determines the inmost position of the which is web-holder's, and the described construction,

enabling it to be hardened as a rotection against the rebound of the web'hollier butts, and enabling easy removal and assembly, is

of importance to the operation of the machine. I

A. flattened portion of ring ,301, as at 320, may be rovided to permit cam 88 to stand across .t e circular path of the web-holder butts. The opening 90 for the movement of cam 88 may be formed as an open depression 'n the inner face of cap 300, as shown, ring 301 when in place closing the inner part of said opening. Outward movement of webholder butts by the cam 88 is permitted by enlargement 92 of theputer periphery of eve 305, which enlargement may be deed by an adjustable cam 91 housed in a horizontal slot 93, Fig. 1, formed through the enlargement 317 of cap 300, in which slot said cam 91 is frictionally held in its adjusted position by countersunk pinch said cam 91, one end of w ich is an adjustable advancing cam for ovement of the web-holders 292inward to their normal concentric path" 305. This path is such as to cause the web-holders to project between the needles, to maintain the ficient tension against t e needles.

The relati osition of the wave formed by the web-ho der cam- 88 and the wave formed by the coiiperation of jacks 380 and cam- 2 is such as to maintain said webhold down the web during the advance of, the needles by the jacks 380, and re'insert said web-holders'prior to, at or near the most depressed osition of the needles due to thecams 2 and 2, thereby a in advancing the web-holders prior to tfi: rise of -the needles uplthe slope 12, thus to secure the passagebe 'nd the advancing needles which have-not taken am as at supplemental yarn feed-52 of the oats or sinker wales m, Fig. 15, of said-yarn a2.

I For automatic 0 eration, it is desirable to move the cam sli 'e 2, whenthe auxiliary wave is to be formed in the needles, in two screws 94 taking into enlarfid bores 96 in shanks of the I place after the "leadin lon vs 1) down the ace 0 the cams 2, 2'.

My machine may" therefore be provided as lication 766,401 with means for securing am. under a suf- V B IIIOVB- 1-80 iliary yarn a: is therefore drawn into the position illustrated lyin close against the under side of the brac et 601 whence it passes above the fabric guide plate 002 under the guide 60-! and clamp 606, and into the cutter 08 forming a part of the existing machine. Cutter 608 being separately worked from drum 120, is arranged to out the yarn a: when it has reached said position. Yarn a: is preferably fed under slight te sion.

The idle position of yarn a: is such as to insure maintaining it out of contact with needles performing any of the operations for the remainder of the stocking.

The exit of the auxiliary web-holder cam 88 occurs during the passage of the'short butt needles and preferably at that section of the web-holders provided with the medium -butts 28 placed among web-holders having the long butts 29 associated with the short butt se ment of the needles, But the cam 88 may e withdrawn in, any position without displacing the web-holders, the inthrow cam 91 moving all the Web-holders in to their normal concentric osition. It will be observed that the actuating lever 7 0 does not positively move either lever 50 to introduce the yarn or lever 85 to enter the webholder cam, movement of said actuated parts 'being due to spring 53 and spring plunger 74, whereby accidents of timing will not cause breakage of 'parts. 7

The form of my device above described is adapted, upon the operation explained of lever 70 and of cams 2 and 2 to form in the plain fabric, stocking produced by the remaining devices a sectionof fabric such as shown in Fig. 15, be inning and ending at points predetermine by the posltlon and extent of cam 517, Fig. 1, on drum 120.

With an addition about to be described, the machine may readil produce instead the other varieties of mu tiple course fabric shown in Fig. 16 or in Fig. 17, beginning and end such sections at predetermined oints in t e otherwise plain fabric stockceding the supplemental stitch cam 2.

- as well as at the main cams 6 and 7.

When inserted to contact with the needle butts, andwhen yarn gu de 51 1s 1n lts operative position, all of the needlestake yarn and knit at the auxiliary wave at camT121", e fabric produced is then double-course plain fabric alternately I of yarns m and 3 asshown in Fig. 17.

If the cams 2 and 2 remain in 'tion during the absence of cam 2", an when the slide 2 is in o rative position, the accordion fabric of i 15 will be produced.

For tucking (see Fig. 16), cam 2 is removed from slide 2, as shown in Figs. 19 and 20. The normal position of cam 2 when in place is shown in dotted lines in Fi 20.

ien cam 2 is withdrawn, needles without jacks 380 moving at the tuck position at which they are left by the mam cams pass across the face of cam 2* in a position not high enough to have cleared their previous loops, but hi h enough to take yarn a: at their passage own the face of supplemental cam 2.

The needles provided with jacks 380 willbe cleared by the 'acks before they take yarn w, and the need es with jacks will therefore knit with am a, at cm 2 but the needles without acks will accumulate a loop as, Fig. 16, of yarn a: in addition to their Fig. 17 may be formed in the same article i at predetermined points; and by withdrawing cams 2", 2 and 2", and removin yarn as, plain single feed fabric may be embed in continuation of either of the previous fabrics.

When the arrangement is that illustrate in Figs. 19 and 20, earn 2 being removed automatic change in an desired order will be made from the we multiple-course fabric of Fig. 16 tothe double-course plain fabric of Fig. 17, and thence to single course plain fabric upon first inserting cam 2 and yarn m, then inserting cam 2*, and then withdrawing yarn w and the auxiliary knitting cams 2 and 2". Or, cam 2 'bemg relaced, any order of (1) single course plain abric (2) multiple course accordion, (3) multiple course plain fabric can be made automaticall movement 0 the cams.

Cam 2 is preferably operated as shown b a s ring plun er 190 normall holding it wit drawn, a cut lever 23 pivoted at 22 on an extesion of bracket 19 carryin adjustment screw on in contact with sai cam at one end, its other end resting against Ill by the proper consecutive [stages in advance of'its similar to cam 517 cause t-hetimel move and outvvar in two hese camsare exchangeable, andtheir position on drum 120 will be determined by the place extent and order in the article to be produced of the variations in the fabriccapable of bein made. a

I am aware t at the fabric illustrated in Fig. 15 is of ancient common knowledge and use in stockin for instance as illustrated and described in Older No. 552,583 dated January 7, 1896, and that the fabrics of Figs. 16 and 17 are old fabrics, and I do not herein claim broadly every means for knitting such fabric, or for knitting stockings having sections of such fabric.

lVhat I claim is: g

1. A knitting machine havin in combination means for knitting plain abric havin an integral welt and means for forming sai plain fabric by multiple-course knittin tion means for knitting v 2. A knitting machine having in com inasin le-course turned welts integral with plain Eibric and means for knitting parts of said plain fabric by single-course and parts by multiple-course knittin a 3. A initting machine having in combination automatic means for knitting and unit ing together the beginning and end of a predetermined extent of plain single-course welt fabric and one end of a 'redetermined extent of multiple-course moc -rib fabric.

4. A knitting machine having in combination needles and means for knitting a predetermined extent of plain fabric on recurrent needles only from a single yarn in successive courses, and means for knitting continuously therewith fabric havin parts knit on all of said needles from a p urality of yarns in interleaved courses.

5. A knitting machine having in combination means for knitting fabric for an integral turned welt, means for Iormmga section of plain fabr c by multiple-course knitting. and devices for causing said means to be operative at predetermined times, to predetermined extents, during the manufacture of an article of hosier 6. A knittin machme having in combination means %or knitting and uniting together a predetermined extent of tubular single-course welt fabric and. a, redetermined extent ofjt'ubular multip e-coi1rae mock-rib fabric, and means for thereafter knitting the remainder of a stocking having a seamless leg, tions.

the Letters Patent to Clark ting cam for knitting a plurality nation needles,

. needles to foot, heel and toe porredeter- 8. A knitting machine having means for knitting plain fabric seamless's'ections of a stocking, including Jheelsand toes, in combination with means for knitting continuously therewith an integral out-turned welt and means for knitting a multiple course mockrib to, section. t

' 9. knitting machine havi in combination needles, reciprocal stitc cams, and an auxiliary cam, said cams together being adapted for knitting a pluralit of courses simultaneousl an means d justable to cause some 0 the needles in onedirection of knitti to pass at times one and at times another 0 said knitti cams while withholding their previous cops.

10. A knitting machine hav needles, reciprocal main cams and an auic ifiary knitof courses simultaneously, and means to cause recurrent needles to pass said main cams while withholding their loops, in combination with means for renderin one of said cams inactive uponany of said needles. 4

11. A knitting machine having in combireciprocal stitch cams and an auxiliary cam, said cams together being adapted for knitting a plurality of courses simultaneously, and means to cause some of the needles during predetermined times to pass one and thereafter to pass another of said knittingcams While withholding their previous loops.

12. A knitting machine having needles in the usual longer and shorter butt series, cams adapted to act on all the needle butts for knitting F8, plurality of courses sunnitaneously, and means to cause recurrent needles to lpass one of said cams while withholding t eir loops, in combination with means for rendering another of said' cams active and inactive at predetermined times. 13. A knitting machine having in combination needles and cams each acting on the same needles for knitting a plurality of courses simultaneously, means to cause some of the needles to passone of s'aid knitting cams while withholding their revious loops, and means knit or to cause some of the needlesto withhold theirloops. at another knittin'c'am.

14. knitting machine having incombination needles having 0 atin butts and cams each acting on sai butts or knitting a plurality of courses simultaneously, means at g as y

movable to cause a l of the 1 ments of said instruments butts.

ting waves, having in combination an auxiliary knitting cam, an auxliary web-holder cam, and means for moving said cams into and out of contact with the needles and webholders respectively during plassage of segaving shorter 27. A. knittinf machine-for knitting fabrics having s ercourse and multiple-course arts having -t rein in combination an auxiliary knitting "cam, web holders, a webholder cam and a yarn-guide device cooperating therewith, and attain-controlled actuating means for simu taneously moving said yarn- 1 ide device and knitting cam into operative and inoperative ositions, and for bodily moving said web-ho dercam into and awa from operative contact with said web-hol era.

.28. A knitting machine for knitting fabrics having single-course and multiple-course parts havlng t erein in combination an auxiliary knitting cam, a web-holder cam and a yarn guide device miiperating therewith, and attern-controlled actuating means for sim taneously rendering said devices operative and inoperative comprising a mounting for each or said devices permitting movement into d out of position for operation, and a common connection for moving said devices.

29. A knitting machine for knit fabries having single-course and m tiplecourse arts havin therein in combination an a ia knittmg' cam a movable auxilia webolder cam, a movable yarn i e for an auxiliary yarnan actuator ever, mountings for said we -holder cam and yarn-guide pivoted to swing in the lane of movement of said actuator lever, an pattern wntrolled means for operating said lever to simultaneously enter and remove from operative position said web-holder cam and yarn ide.

80. A knittin machine for knitting fabrics having sing e-course and multiple-course parts havmg t erein in combination a mov able auxiliary knitting cam, a movable auxiliarv web-holder cam, and movable yarnguide for an auxiliary yarn; an actuator ever, mountings for said web-holder cam and yam-guide pivoted to swing in the plane of movement of said actuator .lever, and attern-controlled means for operating said itting cam and said lever to simultaneously enter and remove from operative position said knitting and web-holder cams and said yarn guide.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses:

ROBERT W. SQOTT.

Witnesses:

Rum A. Rom, Maaeann'r F. Goon. 

